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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Revere (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Revere. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Revere is located in Griggs County.

To see how the shape of North Dakota's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Griggs County: Barnes, Eddy, Foster, Nelson, Steele & Stutsman.

Below are the counties that are near Revere. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Revere:

  • Griggs County     (The home county of Revere)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.
    • Sutton
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hannaford
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Walum
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Walum is located in Griggs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walum
    • Cooperstown
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jessie
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Binford
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Barnes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.
    • Dazey
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Wimbledon
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Leal
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Leal is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leal
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 18 people
    • Sibley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Sibley is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sibley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
    • Rogers
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Ashtabula ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Ashtabula is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashtabula
    • Pillsbury
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Pillsbury is located in Barnes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pillsbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 11 people
    • Eckelson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Sanborn
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Foster County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.
    • Glenfield
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • McHenry
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Grace City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Nelson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.
    • Aneta
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • McVille
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Pekin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Steele County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.
    • Luverne
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Finley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Sharon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hope
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Sherbrooke
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Sherbrooke is located in Steele County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherbrooke
  • Stutsman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.
    • Courtenay
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Kensal
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Spiritwood Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Spiritwood Lake is located in Stutsman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spiritwood Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
    • Spiritwood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Buchanan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Pingree
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Revere, see our County-by-County Page for Revere.

Cemeteries Near Revere ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Revere.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Revere - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Revere covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.

  • Lyster Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Hannaford Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Mabel Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Eastman Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Glenfield Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Cooperstown Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hero Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Boniface Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Prairie View Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Dazey Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Lawrence Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Courtenay Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (38 more) ...
    • Bethany Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Binford Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • St. James Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

While we didn't find Revere in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Revere.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Revere, with the one closest to Revere listed first.

  • Hannaford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Cooperstown
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Dazey
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Jessie
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Glenfield
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Ashtabula ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Ashtabula is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashtabula
  • Odell ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Odell is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell
  • Pickert
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Pickert is located in Steele County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickert
  • Sharon
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Aneta
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Sanborn
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Hope
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Urbana
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Urbana is located in Barnes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urbana
  • Sherbrooke
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Sherbrooke is located in Steele County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherbrooke

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Revere. See our List of 1890's Communities around Revere.

Newspapers Published in Revere ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Revere.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Revere, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Revere.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Revere:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Revere) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Revere, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.